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People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?
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You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
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A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.
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How far can a person go... and still live with himself.
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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you, you said with a shrug. All you have to do is say my name and I know. ...Can't you hear it? you said. When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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